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3 Reasons To Avoid Overdosing on Vitamins

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In my previous article I discussed the benefits of getting enough vitamins.  This article highlighted the importance of vitamins for good overall health.  They play a role in almost everything you can imagine from growth, to production of new cells, to wound healing, to protecting your body.  However, you can get too much of a good thing.  Whilst sticking to the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for each vitamin can provide you with countless benefits consuming high doses of certain vitamins can have the opposite effect causing pain, discomfort and even damage to your body's cells.  In this … [Read more...]

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12 Top Reasons To Get Your Vitamins

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In some of my previous blog posts I discussed each of the thirteen vitamins in detail.  Each vitamin is an essential nutrient that helps your body's cells perform an important function.  Together they provide you with a number of significant health benefits.  Today I would like to discuss this topic in greater detail and outline twelve of the top reasons for getting your vitamins. 1) HEALTHY VISION AND NIGHT VISION:- Vitamin A and B2 both promote healthy vision.  Not getting enough of these vitamins can lead to problems with your sight, particularly at night time.  In the worst cases it can … [Read more...]

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Are Multi Vitamin Supplements Necessary?

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Multi vitamins are one of the most popular health and fitness supplements around.  Even people who are not really into their fitness tend to purchase these supplements.  A lot of my friends take a daily multi vitamin but would never consider purchasing protein shakes.  I myself started purchasing multi vitamins when I moved out of my parent's house to make sure I was getting the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of each of the thirteen vitamins.  I used to pop a multi vitamin in my mouth each morning and never thought twice.  However, I recently wrote some articles on each of the vitamins and … [Read more...]

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The Importance Of Getting Enough Vitamin D This Christmas

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Vitamins are important nutrients that help your body function properly.  They all have different roles to play and a deficiency of any one vitamin can lead to a number of nasty side effects.  Whilst they are all equally important, vitamin D is perhaps even more important over Christmas.  In this article I will be discussing why vitamin D is particularly important over the festive period and how you can make sure that you get enough. As I discussed in my previous article on vitamin D it is one of the fat soluble vitamins.  The main role of vitamin D is to help the body absorb calcium and … [Read more...]

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Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) Explained

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Vitamin C (also known as ascorbic acid) is a water soluble vitamin and is probably the most well known vitamin of them all.  The discovery of vitamin C was the result of a search for a cure for scurvy (a disease which leads to problems with the connective tissue now known to be caused by a lack of vitamin C).  Scurvy has been reported to affect explorers, sailors and soldiers throughout history.  This is now thought to be because they stuck to a diet of dry biscuits and salted beef.  They did not often take fruit and vegetables with them on their travels because they were not easy to preserve … [Read more...]

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Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) Explained

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Vitamin B12 (also known as cobalamin) is a water soluble vitamin and part of the B complex group (a group of eight vitamins that were initially thought to be the singular vitamin B).  Like many of the other vitamins the discovery of vitamin B12 was the result of research into a cure for a disease.  This time researchers were searching for a way to treat pernicious anemia (a lack of red blood cells in the body which is now known to be caused by vitamin B12 deficiency).  Up until the 1920s this condition often resulted in death.  However, in 1926 George Richards Minot and William Perry Murphy … [Read more...]

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Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) Explained

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Vitamin B9 (also known as folic acid) is a water soluble vitamin and part of the B complex group (eight vitamins that were initially thought to be the singular vitamin B).  It was first noticed in 1930 when Lucy Willis and her group of researchers realised that yeast based tonic and crude liver extracts could help prevent macrocytic anemia (a condition where the red blood cells are larger than normal leading to a low number of red blood cells in the body) in pregnant women.  Other researchers came forward with similar discoveries of a compound which could prevent anemia (a low number of red … [Read more...]

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Vitamin B7 (Biotin/Vitamin H) Explained

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Vitamin B7 (also known as biotin or vitamin H) is a water soluble vitamin and part of the B complex group (eight vitamins that were initially thought to be the singular vitamin B).  The discovery of vitamin B7 dates back to the 1927 when M.A. Boas realised that feeding rats raw eggs for several weeks would lead to a condition called 'egg white injury' (where they would develop a skin condition similar to eczema, lose all their hair, become paralysed and bleed under their skin).  Soon after this Boas discovered that a substance in liver which he named 'protective factor x' could treat 'egg … [Read more...]

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Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) Explained

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Vitamin B6 (also known as pyridoxine) is a water soluble vitamin and part of the B complex group (a group of eight vitamins which were first thought to be the singular vitamin B).  It was first discovered when scientists were looking for a vitamin that would cure acrodynia (a skin inflammation) in rats.  The acrodynia in the rats appeared to resemble pellagra (a disease where the skin becomes red and rough).  Since scientists already knew that pellagra was caused by a lack of vitamin B3 and could be used to treat the condition, they assumed that B3 could also be used to treat acrodynia.  In … [Read more...]

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Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid) Explained

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Vitamin B5 (also known as pantothenic acid) is a water soluble vitamin which is part of the B complex group (eight vitamins which were initially all thought to be vitamin B).  It was first noticed by R.J. Williams in 1933 as a growth factor in yeast.  In 1939 Richard Kuhn isolated vitamin B5 but it got little attention till over 10 years later.  In the 1950s scientists performed further research into the effect vitamin B5 had on humans by feeding volunteers a diet that was deficient in the vitamin.  After a few weeks on the diet the volunteers complained that they felt weak and unwell.  … [Read more...]

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